Ask The Networking Expert: Questions & Answers
Infrastructure and project management
Our network infrastructure and project management expert has moved to the IT Knowledge Exchange (ITKE). View Carrie Higbie's ITKE profile for her latest advice on developing technologies and what they mean to your network.


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Who needs application performance management?
Answer - Expert Jesse Rothstein says IT organizations accountable for the uptime and performance of core applications can benefit from application performance management solutions. 15 June 2012 -
APM tools offer simple and non-disruptive deployment
Answer - ExtraHop’s application performance management tools offer a simple and non-disruptive deployment on the systems being monitored, saving IT organizations time and money. 30 April 2012 -
Network application performance monitoring bids issues
Answer - When conducting network application performance monitoring, network admins can face network application visibility issues due to increasingly complex and distributed networks. 30 April 2012 -
Network-based application performance monitoring facets
Answer - Network-based application performance monitoring differs from old approaches by examining network traffic passing through the data center in real-time to spot and solve issues. 10 April 2012 -
Blade server switches may ease density problems
Answer - When trying to remove density in the network, using blade server switches may help solve the problem, as well as offer latency advantages. Expert Carrie Higbie weighs in. 16 March 2012 -
Application performance management: Network health key
Answer - Increases in network complexity can cause network health to suffer, but network-based application performance management offers admins better visibility to improve performance. 14 March 2012 -
Will 10GBASE-T switches eliminate copper cabling?
Answer - Is the rise of 10GBASE-T switches the end of using a copper cabling system in the network? Data Infrastructure expert, Carrie Higbie provides an answer. 12 March 2012 -
Network convergence benefits: Cost and communication
Answer - Expert Carrie Higbie explains the various network convergence benefits including communication between systems and less network equipment needed to run across the network. 27 February 2012 -
Top-of-rack switches: End of copper structured cabling?
Answer - A push for top-of-rack switches in the data center may bring questions about the demise of copper structured cabling to surface. Expert Carrie Higbie puts these concerns to rest. 21 February 2012 -
What network troubleshooting tools can I use to determine the cause of slow web page access?
Ask the Expert - 19 February 2010
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